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Did this in Illustrator to be able to visualize each part of Typography.  




















  • Good Design combines everything to convey a clear message.
    • Context, material, typeface, culture
  • Systems combine to generate the underlying circumstance within which Graphic Design functions.
  • Language of vision = a communication that everyone can know.
  • Evolving systems can change the culture.
  • Form and Content can connote and detonate different meanings.
  • Context is everything.

  • Design decisions are constrained by the concerns of the people who initiate or sponsor the work.
    • Who initiates the work?
  • Readers, receivers, or audience orbit: experience, education, values, beliefs, interests, and tastes.
    • Who are the readers?
  • Typography exists in: A format, a medium, at one place, and at one time.
    • What is the artifact?
    • How is it manifested?
    • Where does it take place?
    • When does it take place?
Technological and physical systems govern the material nature of typography.